Iran: Media Tales for the Next War by Norman Solomon
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092506I.shtml
When the USA’s biggest news weekly devotes five pages to scoping out a US air war against Iran, as Time did in the same issue, it’s yet another sign that the wheels of our nation’s war-spin machine are turning faster toward yet another unprovoked attack on another country.
..So many reporters and pundits have internalized Washington’s geopolitical agendas that the mainline institutions of journalism continue to rot from within. That the rot goes largely unnoticed is testimony to how Orwellian “doublethink” has been normalized.
..When the media system undermines the free flow of information and prevents wide-ranging debate, what happens is a parody of democracy. That’s what occurred four years ago during the media buildup for the invasion of Iraq.
Feeling powerless?
-MAB
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